It is a truism that for most people, working out is not a pleasant experience. Beyond boredom, there is often the nagging sense that effort is being expended for no purpose. Most people have mediocore, bordering on bad, workouts. I'm not just talking about their routines, I mean the actual workouts are bad. People struggle through them,...

Just cut it out - it’s not working. You’ve tried over a hundred or thousand times, only to be met with failure, relapse and plateaus. You’ve always had an answer for it: Try more! Keep digging, eventually you’ll come out the other side.

The reality is that you do too much of the wrong thing and too little of the right thing. Your whole...